'Person' is political

August 13, 2009

My first academic post was at University College London. But now, in view of its prohibition on the use of "discriminatory" language ("Staff continue using terms deemed inappropriate by PC language advice", 6 August), I wonder whether I would even have been granted an interview.

Geoffrey Alderperson (aka Alderman), University of Buckingham.

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